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thirty-five are wholly typical, i. e., agree with the menominee in 
all the characters mentioned. Seven (20 per cent.) are not 
typical in all their characters, but are typical in one or more 
and are recognizable as menominees. These salt-fish were repre- 
The caudal borders of both scales are at the left 
From a photograph. 
The herring scale is at the left. 
and both are magnified about ten diameters. 
FIG. 3—Scales of Saginaw Bay herring (Argyrosomus artedi Le Sueur) and of the blackfiln (Argyrosomus nigripinnis GIll), 
both from Lake Huron. 

sented by but two samples from a keg. Had more than two fish 
from a keg been available for examination, it is probable that 
entirely typical menominees could have been found in each keg. 
As a result of this examination the salt fish which had been 
